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| About the Group The group helps members with research interest in South Australia to overcome the phobia most people have about it! There is a great wealth of other source material available to family historians. Our group hopes to bring these to the attention of researchers. We also hope to foster contacts with the South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society and to broaden our knowledge of South Australian history. |
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| CONVENOR | Ian Simon | ians@iinet.net.au | |
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Helpful Hints Anyone with South Australian ancestors must not go past the three following reference "bibles". With them, researching in SA can be a joy. All three are available in either WAGS or the State Reference Library. Sources for South Australian History by Andrew Guy Peake. There are two editions of this invaluable work (1987 and 1998), and a wise researcher will check both as information, such as shipping, varies. Relations in Records A guide to family history sources in the official records of South Australia, ie material generated by state government departments. Armed with this handbook you can then quote reference numbers of various records and then contact State Records to ask for a quote for the records to be searched, which will be greatly reduced given your ability to pinpoint exact records of interest. State Records also has an excellent website at: http://www.archives.sa.gov.au/ Kith and Kin A guide to the holdings of the State Library of South Australia, including the Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Again, armed with reference numbers researchers can contact the State Library for a research quote. The State Library's web site is: http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/ Incidentally, there is a large range of useful information leaflets to be found at this site, as well as access to several of the Library's catalogues, including the one for the photographic collection held in the Mortlock Library. |
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Meetings All meetings are held in the Library at May St Bayswater at 2pm on designated Sundays. We hope to provide speakers for all our meetings. At the end of each meeting there is always a problem solving session, so please feel free to bring along your queries and we'll try to provide some light at the end of the tunnel! Next Meeting: Click  to find next meeting details or contact Convenor.
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News Both the WAGS Library and State Library of WA hold all available birth, death and marriage indexes, including the SAGHS produced marriages to 1937. |
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SA News The SA Registrar has released 23 extra microfilms of births, 1922-1928 and SAGHS is intending to add these to their furture release of births from 1907. South Australian BDM certificate prices have risen to $33. Yorke Peninsular Family History Group has amended their opening hours: Tuesday 10am-12noon and Wednesday 2pm to 4pm. They can be found at the Local History Room, Kadina Community Library, Doswell Tce, Kadina. A useful site for South Australian Place names: http://www.placenames.sa.gov.au/ A nominal roll of people involved in British Atomic testing in Australia from 1952 to 1963 is being created by the Department of Veterans Affairs. A searchable database of armed forces personnel is available at: http://www.dva.gov.au/commem/nomroll/atomic/index.htm Corrections and additions can be made through the site. National Archives of Australia South Australian Office has moved to 78 Angas St, Adelaide. PO Box 6536, Halifax Street (Adelaide) SA 5000 Tel: (08) 8409 8400 Fax: (08) 8409 8499 email: archives@naa.gov.au The State Library of South Australia Anyone travelling to Adelaide and planning to use the library is advised to check availability of records. This can be done via their website: http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/ or phone 08-8207 7200. Opening hours for the Institute Building (which houses Family History material) Monday to Thursday 9.30am - 6pm Friday 9.30am - 8pm Sat and Sun 12noon - 5pm State Records in South Australia: Individuals can undertake their own research, and archivists in the reading room will assist at no cost. Access to government records less than thirty years old is restricted, and reports containing personal information may be restricted for up to eighty years. Our group runs a research service, and application forms are available in our group files at WAGS. |
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Newsletter Subscriptions $10.00 for four issues. Contributions welcomed from anyone. Subs need to be sent to Barry Malcolm, c/o SA Group, cheques are to be made payable to WAGS Inc. Contributions welcome - contact the editor: David Sweet davidpam@iinet.net.au |
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Projects The South Australian Interest Group has embarked on two indexing projects. These both involve the newspaper the "Express" and "Telegraph" (as held on microfilm in the State Library of WA). The first index is the extraction of all the Birth, Death and Marriage records as they appear in the daily paper. We aim to cover the time period 1862-1870. The second project is the indexing of all the court reports as they appear in the newspaper for the same time period. This will cover the Supreme Court (both civil and criminal sittings), local and police courts of Adelaide and Port Adelaide, and courts from country areas as they appear. It will not include the Insolvency Court or Coroners reports as these are indexed by other sources. These projects are well underway and the volunteers appear to be becoming well and truly addicted to the other sections of the newspaper as well! Anyone who would like to help with this project, either by extracting the records at source, or by data entry on a computer, will be most welcome to join us. Enquiries should be directed to Robyn Hukin. rhukin@iinet.net.au |
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